Christopher Aedo

Christopher Aedo is senior director of technical operations at Morphlabs where he oversees the technology and operations side. He found his niche early in his career while helping a global accounting firm move their information systems from an IBM mainframe to a distributed network of Novell and SCO Unix servers. He is currently focused on making it easy for technology groups to move their infrastructure and applications from bare-metal or virtualized servers into public and private clouds.

Enterprises are quickly realizing that their future success is dependent on
their ability to adapt their business to the Cloud. That realization however
comes with more questions and concerns about executing an effective
cloud-based strategy. The explosion of the OpenStack community has made it
possible for hosting providers and businesses to create or utilize
Amazon-like public and private clouds, but it's clear that the Cloud is not a
one-size-fits-all solution. One prime factor that dictates the success of a
cloud computing strategy is the particular workload an enterprise is
tackling. From DevOps, to rapidly deploying dynamic and scalable websites,
enterprises' workload needs should dictate their cloud architecture.
The specific workloads have an impact on many elements of the cloud,
particularly the architecture of the infrastructure. It becomes clear how
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